Each year in early spring, the Irish Tax Institute (ITI)’s annual dinner marks the launch of the annual tax lobbying season. One thousand tax practitioners cram into a hotel function room to rub shoulders with a platoon of officials led by the minister for finance. On February 27, addressing Tánaiste Simon Harris in his first time at the event as Minister for Finance, ITI president and Deloitte tax partner Shane Wallace raised well-flagged points of concern for multinationals, such as R&D tax credits and the treatment of intercompany interest. Then he used the clincher part of his speech to raise…

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